Shadows from the Future
Chapter Fourteen: Prisoner of the Priestess
Keishou ran back to the hut and burst through the door. "INUYASHA! KIKYO KIDNAPED KAGOME!" Inuyasha was instantly on his feet. "What?!"
"She took her into the forest!"
"How long ago?"
"Not long, like two minutes ago. Her scent should still be fresh!" With that said Inuyasha was out the door.
Miroku looked away from Sango's sleeping form and at Keishou, "Is this it?" Keishou nodded and turned to his sister, "Get your cloak and arrows, Arasoi." She nodded and grabbed her things and ran out of the hut along with her elder brother. Miroku then noticed that Inuyasha left his sword behind, "Oh no..."
Kagome felt the constriction of the Soul Stealers bound her to the tree as she opened her eyes to face Kikyo. "So Kagome, are you having fun?" she smiled wickedly. Kagome wanted to talk back but soon found out she couldn't move at all. "Now it's time for Inuyasha and me to finally live in happiness. He wants to live, so be it, but I shall live with him. With my soul." A shock of lightening flowed through Kagome's body causes her to scream in pain.
Arasoi and Keishou jumped from tree to tree following their future mother and father's scent. 'So my foreboding was correct after all'. Arasoi then noticed the blood on her brother's shoulder. "BIG BROTHER! YOU'RE BLEEDING!" she exclaimed, but Keishou kept going. "It's nothing to worry about, just a scratch. Stupid priestess got me before, but it should heal soon." He looked behind and faced Arasoi, "Listen, we're almost there, you got your cloak on?" She nodded. "Great, just keep that on." After one last leap the two demi-dogs stood in a tree overlooking where the scene between Inuyasha and Kikyo will take place. "Alright, Arasoi I need you to get you're arrow aimed for Kikyo's right wrist. Wait for me to say now then let it go, once that arrow flies it should hit Kikyo's hand and right after that Inuyasha will attack. You go it?" Arasoi nodded and eyed his wound again, "That looks really bad, Keishou." "It's fine Arasoi. Now do you understand the plan?!" Keishou hissed as his sister nodded and set up her bow and arrow. Keishou took a deep breath and held his shoulder again, that blasted cut of his was killing him, but that wasn't the main priority right now.
Inuyasha jumped to the clearing. "KAGOME!" he yelled once he saw that she was trapped to a tree. Kagome felt that the shocks had stopped coming. 'INUYASHA! Has he come to rescue me?' Kagome then remember their earlier fight. 'No... not after all those horrible things I said to him.' She felt a tear fall down her face. 'Now I can't even say sorry.' "KIKYO! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER?!" Inuyasha demanded to the undead priestess. "I am simply taking back what is mine... my soul." Kikyo stared blankly when she noticed Inuyasha's face darkened. "You said you wanted to live. So we shall live together forever. That is how it was meant to be."
"No! No it's not, Kikyo! If it was meant to be then you've never would've died in the first place! There was a reason that Kagome came to my time and awoken, that's fate! This...this is just murder!" Inuyasha yelled.
"So... was I correct in saying that you indeed have feelings for my reincarnation Inuyasha?" Kikyo questioned.
"STOP BRINGING HER INTO THIS KIKYO! THIS HAS NOTHING TO-"
"You lie. This has everything to do with Kagome. Pick Inuyasha, who is it that you wish to spend your life with: This girl or myself?"
The school-girl felt the tears fall more, 'This is it. This is where Inuyasha confesses his love for Kikyo and kills me off. What do I care anymore? I'm trapped to a stupid tree and my only chance for survival is from the boy I love but only he's still in love with his undead ex who trapped me here in the first place. I'd never thought I'll die this way.'
Inuyasha froze and softly whispered, "Kagome."
"What was that Inuyasha?" Kikyo hissed hoping that her ears had deceived her.
His amber eyes looked upwards, "I said I love Kagome." Kikyo was taken back, "You...love this...this....WRENCH?! I GAVE YOU MY LIFE INUYASHA!"
"Listen to me, just because I'm not in love with you Kikyo, doesn't mean I don't want your sprit to leave the earth peacefully. You can help us defeat Naraku! Form an alliance and kill that bastard once and for all! Then you can go to the afterlife, you don't belong here. Please, just let Kagome go." Inuyasha pleaded.
"Never you worthless half breed." Kikyo's back then glowed a dark red and Kagome felt the presence of a jewel fragment, an evil jewel fragment.
Keishou continued to watch the scene before him, "Get ready..." Arasoi nodded and kept her arrow aimed.
"KIKYO DON'T YOU DAR HURT KAGOME!" Inuyasha screamed lunging at Kikyo who easily threw him 10 feet backwards with one of her spell scrolls. "IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU INUYASHA! NO ONE SHALL!" Her body glowed red as the long, dark, lizards type of aura left her body and shot at the paralayed Kagome.
"NOW!"
Arasoi's arrow flew from its bow and started to glow a pale white. The arrow attacked the aura head-on and soon conquered the evil spirited.
Kagome was never hit by either attack.
"C'mon! We gottta get outta here!" whispered Keishou and he and his sister fled the site. "WHAT?!" Kikyo yelled and saw in a nearby tree the two half demons leap away and was about to make her assault when she felt warm claws rip through her back. The undead priestess turned her head and faced the now full-demon formed hanyou. "You've killed me again, Inuyasha." she said simply.
"I didn't kill you, Kikyo." came Inuyasha's now raspier voice. "I broke you." Kikyo's body then shattered into a million pieces of dried clay. Nothing was left of the priestess but a pile of dust and one tainted jewel shard.
(AN: THERE! I HAVE KILLED KIKYO! WAHAHA! Sorry, I've always found her sorta depressing and annoying. But now I killed her so I'm happy. But look! I've given you wonderful people a double update! See how much I love you people? Now moving on... you should know by now the rules. Review and I update! If you do not review a creepy fat balding guy will come to your house and ask you for a sponge bath! No I am not on drugs! SO REVIEW NOW!)